Posted by cosmicdreams on August 7, 2012 at 7:54pm
I came across this link today that details HTML 5's adherence to the web standard for new form fields.
http://www.chromium.org/developers/web-platform-status/forms
Most exciting, date support is in (Yet, not completely)

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Color too
Also of note, preliminary support for the color field is in.
Software Engineer @ The Nerdery
Real-time support status
Here are a couple links that can help you determine if the browser you're using supports various pieces of the spec
http://miketaylr.com/code/input-type-attr.html
http://miketaylr.com/code/html5-forms-ui-support.html